Pompeii comes to Australia, and ancient and contemporary stories of disaster and loss converge
- Written by Kylie Message, Professor of Public Humanities and Director of the ANU Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University
National Museum of AustraliaPompeii: Inside a Lost City at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra depicts life in the flourishing Roman city of Pompeii before it was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE.
It pictures an ancient city frozen in time, eerily preserved by volcanic ash. It also tells the story of the city’s...
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